Social epistemology
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Social epistemology
Indiana University Press, c2002
2nd ed
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Bibliography: p. 295-311
Includes index
内容説明・目次
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: pbk ISBN 9780253215154
内容説明
This is the book that launched the research program of social epistemology, which has fuelled imaginations and provoked debates across many disciplines around the world. Its opening question remains as pressing as ever: How should knowledge production be organised. The second edition contains a substantial new introduction, in which Fuller reflects on social epistemology's place in the history of analytic and continental epistemology and discusses the inspiration he has drawn from a wide variety of fields in the humanities and social sciences. It also includes a spirited attack on alternative philosophical groundings for social epistemology and a detailed response to the standard criticism that social epistemology has received from realist philosophers and natural scientists during the "Science Wars."In "Social Epistemology", Fuller seeks to reconcile normative philosophy of science and empirical sociology of knowledge. He reinterprets key problems in the philosophy of science, such as realism, the nature of objectivity, the demarcation of science from other disciplines, and the nature of our knowledge of other times and places.
In the course of this reinterpretation, which draws on concepts and arguments from many branches of the humanities and social sciences, Fuller considers such philosophically neglected questions as: How is the burden of proof determined in science? On what basis is the historian licensed to say that a "consensus" has been reached on a scientific claim? What implications do our patently imperfect means of linguistic transmission have for the notion that science "retains and accumulates" knowledge?Finally, Fuller proposes a course of "Knowledge Policy Studies" designed to make the theory of knowledge a branch of political theory and thereby to hasten the evolution of the epistemologist into a knowledge policy maker. In its new edition, the book remains a provocative contribution to the debate on the production, dissemination, and interpretation of knowledge in the sciences.
目次
- Introduction to the Second Edition
- Foreword by Thomas Nickles
- Preface
- Part One: Issues in Defining the Field of Social Epistemology
- 1. An Overview of Social Epistemology
- 2. Social Epistemology and Social Metaphysics
- Part Two: Issues in the Language and History of Knowledge Production
- 3. Realism, the Moving Target of Science Studies: A Tale of Philosophers, Historians, and Sociologists in Hot Pursuit
- 4. Bearing the Burden of Proof: On the Frontier of Science and History
- 5. Incommensurability Explained and Defended
- 6. The Inscrutability of Silence and the Problem of Knowledge in the Human Sciences
- Appendix A
- How to Do Subtle Things with Words - The Ins and Outs of Conceptual Scheming
- Part Three: Issues in the Social Organization of Knowledge
- 7. The Demarcation of Science: A Problem Whose Demise Has Been Greatly Exaggerated
- 8. Disciplinary Boundaries: A Conceptual Map of the Field
- 9. The Elusiveness of Consensus in Science
- 10. From Moral Psychology to Cognitive Sociology: Making Sense of the Forman Thesis
- Appendix B: Having Them Change against Their Will - Policy Simulations of Objectivity
- Part Four: Issues in Knowledge for Policy-Making
- 11. Toward a Revival of the Normative in the Sociology of Knowledge
- 12. Social Epistemology and the Problem of Authoritarianism
- Appendix C: Notes toward Designing a Core Curriculum for a Graduate Program in Knowledge Policy Studies
- Bibliography
- Index
- 巻冊次
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: cloth ISBN 9780253340696
内容説明
This is the book that launched the research program of social epistemology, which has fuelled imaginations and provoked debates across many disciplines around the world. Its opening question remains as pressing as ever: How should knowledge production be organised. The second edition contains a substantial new introduction, in which Fuller reflects on social epistemology's place in the history of analytic and continental epistemology and discusses the inspiration he has drawn from a wide variety of fields in the humanities and social sciences. It also includes a spirited attack on alternative philosophical groundings for social epistemology and a detailed response to the standard criticism that social epistemology has received from realist philosophers and natural scientists during the 'Science Wars.'In "Social Epistemology", Fuller seeks to reconcile normative philosophy of science and empirical sociology of knowledge. He reinterprets key problems in the philosophy of science, such as realism, the nature of objectivity, the demarcation of science from other disciplines, and the nature of our knowledge of other times and places.
In the course of this reinterpretation, which draws on concepts and arguments from many branches of the humanities and social sciences, Fuller considers such philosophically neglected questions as: How is the burden of proof determined in science? On what basis is the historian licensed to say that a "consensus" has been reached on a scientific claim? What implications do our patently imperfect means of linguistic transmission have for the notion that science 'retains and accumulates' knowledge?Finally, Fuller proposes a course of 'Knowledge Policy Studies' designed to make the theory of knowledge a branch of political theory and thereby to hasten the evolution of the epistemologist into a knowledge policy maker. In its new edition, the book remains a provocative contribution to the debate on the production, dissemination, and interpretation of knowledge in the sciences.
目次
- Introduction to the Second Edition
- Foreword by Thomas Nickles
- Preface
- Part One: Issues in Defining the Field of Social Epistemology
- 1. An Overview of Social Epistemology
- 2. Social Epistemology and Social Metaphysics
- Part Two: Issues in the Language and History of Knowledge Production
- 3. Realism, the Moving Target of Science Studies: A Tale of Philosophers, Historians, and Sociologists in Hot Pursuit
- 4. Bearing the Burden of Proof: On the Frontier of Science and History
- 5. Incommensurability Explained and Defended
- 6. The Inscrutability of Silence and the Problem of Knowledge in the Human Sciences
- Appendix A
- How to Do Subtle Things with Words - The Ins and Outs of Conceptual Scheming
- Part Three: Issues in the Social Organization of Knowledge
- 7. The Demarcation of Science: A Problem Whose Demise Has Been Greatly Exaggerated
- 8. Disciplinary Boundaries: A Conceptual Map of the Field
- 9. The Elusiveness of Consensus in Science
- 10. From Moral Psychology to Cognitive Sociology: Making Sense of the Forman Thesis
- Appendix B: Having Them Change against Their Will - Policy Simulations of Objectivity
- Part Four: Issues in Knowledge for Policy-Making
- 11. Toward a Revival of the Normative in the Sociology of Knowledge
- 12. Social Epistemology and the Problem of Authoritarianism
- Appendix C: Notes toward Designing a Core Curriculum for a Graduate Program in Knowledge Policy Studies
- Bibliography
- Index
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